Python Bytes
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken
Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.
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Mar 13, 2020 • 33min
#172 Floating high above the web with Helium
Topics covered in this episode:
Python in Production Hynek
How to cheat at unit tests with pytest and Black
Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
Helium makes Selenium-Python 50% easier
uncertainties package
Personalize your python prompt
Extras
Joke
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Mar 5, 2020 • 35min
#171 Chilled out Python decorators with PEP 614
Topics covered in this episode:
PEP 614 – Relaxing Grammar Restrictions on Decorators
Create a macOS Menu Bar App with Python (Pomodoro Timer)
Conditional Coverage
Extras
Joke
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Feb 25, 2020 • 29min
#170 Visualize this: Visualizing Python's visualization ecosystem
Topics covered in this episode:
Python visualization graph
Awesome Zen of Python
Jupytext
Tour of Python Itertools
justpy.io
Modularity for Maintenance
Extras
Joke
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Feb 19, 2020 • 26min
#169 Jupyter Notebooks natively on your iPad
Topics covered in this episode:
D-Tale
Carnets
BeeWare Podium
pytest-mock-resources
How James Bennet is testing in 2020
Python and PyQt: Building a GUI Desktop Calculator
Extras
Joke
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Feb 11, 2020 • 34min
#168 Race your donkey car with Python
Topics covered in this episode:
donkeycar
RIP Pipenv: Tried Too Hard. Do what you need with pip-tools.
str.casefold()
Virtualenv
Property-based tests for the Python standard library (and builtins)
PyCon US Tutorial Schedule & Registration
Extras
Joke
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Feb 3, 2020 • 29min
#167 Cheating at Kaggle and uWSGI in prod
Topics covered in this episode:
clize: Turn functions into command-line interfaces
How to cheat at Kaggle AI contests
Configuring uWSGI for Production Deployment
Thinc: A functional take on deep learning, compatible with Tensorflow, PyTorch, and MXNet
pandas-vet
NumPy beginner documentation
Extras
Joke
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Jan 27, 2020 • 28min
#166 Misunderstanding software clocks and time
Topics covered in this episode:
Amazon is now offering quantum computing as a service
A quick-and-dirty guide on how to install packages for Python
Say No to the no code movement
What I learned going from prison to Python
A real QUICK → Qt5 based gUI generator for ClicK
Falsehoods programmers believe about time
Extras
Joke
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Jan 21, 2020 • 29min
#165 Ranges as dictionary keys - oh my!
Topics covered in this episode:
iterators, generators, coroutines
requests-toolbelt
Pandas Validation
qtpy
pylightxl
python-ranges
Extras
Joke
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Jan 16, 2020 • 29min
#164 Use type hints to build your next CLI app
Topics covered in this episode:
Data driven journalism via cjworkbench
remi: A Platform-independent Python GUI library for your applications.
Typer
Effectively using Matplotlib
Django Simple Task
PyPI Stats at pypistats.org
Extras
Joke
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Jan 9, 2020 • 24min
#163 Meditations on the Zen of Python
Topics covered in this episode:
Meditations on the Zen of Python
nginx raided by Russian police
I'm not feeling the async pressure
codetiming from Real Python
Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast
LocalStack
Extras
Joke
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